Device for lighting fire-works



UNT. 11g Fire-Works.

s. H ighti (NoModeL) E. Device for L No. 228,760.

Patented June 15, 1880 M M e w /0 a 'NITED- STATES PATENT vQ FICE,

EDMUND s, HU on WEY-MOU'EH, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEVECE FDR uon-rmo FIRE-WORKS,

SPE GIIFIGATIGN forming part of Letteri Patent 1\ [o. 228,760, datedJune 15, 1880.

Apjflication filed n 'rnenjnaso. (No modeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LEDMU D S. Hum, of Woy month, in the county of Norfolkand State of lvlassnohnsetts, have invented an improve ment in 10m onCandles-and othez l' ire-worke, of which the following is a full, clear,oonoise, and enact description, reference being had to the accompanyingdrowinge, in Whifill Figl'UE 'k iso- H311 gitndl'na-l section of nRomancandle with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a (le- Lnil view of mylighting-wafer enlarged, and Fig. 3 shows a iliti'erent form of novelfor the lighting-wafer. y n

A represents the case; B,tl1e filling; O, the outside wrapper orGOVOI'lEig,-tll'd D my lighting-wai'ei'. 'iliinligliting-walez: eonsistsof a piece of strnwlmarilor other stout paper with it hole through it,and this hole in filled with n plug, (2, of composition like that usedin the making of What are called safety-matches}? which is n. oomponmlof chlorate of potash,

' red lead, and lamp-black, mail which \vill be ignited by friction witho nurfneo coated with mnmplnons pliosgiiliorne. l -13 5 In Romancandles, whi e obonlll be lighted at one end, one of my welfare isposted upon the em! ol the case A, as shown in the drawings, nml innovel-ell by the ontenwrnppei', G. In

' otlmr kinds of lire-works the lightingwvnfer will he need at the placewhere the piece is to be lighted. on at one end of a fillse, as will beclear without further description.

'lhen'oler may be attached in any way to the ease, or be made a part ofthe case.

The cover for the wafer is best made in the noun way in Romanoandlesmnd, 353l10wl1 in Fig. 2, for larger fire-works, I prefer to usea tape and a paper cap, ae'shown in Fig. 3.

The rubber is a narrow strip 01, wood or stiff paper, oneside of whichis coated with amorphous phosphorus; it is made in all respects like thelighting-surface ofjfne boxi'or L safety matehelf.

In using my improved Roman candles the upper part of the wrapper1),,gvhioh forms the cover for tile ligliting-wnfeiifis torn 01% too):-

over the-composition d. H

I do not claim the firing conipoumi nor the rubber; nor do I claimthenpplicotionof this ooinnounrland rubberos a means of lightingfire-works, as all this is oldybut *Wlmti do claim as my inventioniswitl; its plug 12 of firing oompoumlncose A, filling B,am1opverG,arranged oven-the lighting-wafer, and" adapted to be readily remove-(lwhen the firing compound is to be ignited, nil substantially as(lGSGXllJBCl 2. The lighting-wafer consisting of (lisk I), of stoutpaper, perforated, and having the perforation filled with the plug d offixing all substantially as ll seribed.

EDMUND HUNT.

Witnsse:

J. E. Mummnn, J. R. Snow.

pose the wafer, and therubbe'r-is thenrobbed 1. The combination oi thelighting wefer D,

compound, adaptegl to he ignited by frietioi'i,

